RE: FN-FORUM: [CSS] Freezing thead

date posted 20th August 2003 20:46

Antony:
> column alignment would be a pain, besides it should work using
> overflow on the tbody but ie doesn't do it... poo

Actually, it shouldn't work.
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/visufx.html#overflow says that overflow
applies to 'block-level and replaced elements', of which a is
neither. I don't think there's any (sensible) way of doing it, which is
especially stupid given that the HTML standard rattles on about 'This
division [of tables into thead, tbody and tfoot] enables user agents to
support scrolling of table bodies independently of the table head and foot.'
(from http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/tables.html#rowgroups )

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